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Rewards and risks: US companies rely on volatile emerging markets for growth lacking at home
AP Business WriterCINCINNATI (AP) _ With Russian troops pushing into Georgia, Keith Harrison was working his e-mail back in Cincinnati. The first thing he wanted to know: Were Procter & Gamble Co. employees accounted for? Yes, was the answer. Then, did they and their...Tags: Emerging Market, Plant Openings, PepsiCo Incorporated, Consumers, Baby Products
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Lebanon says it has arrested Islamic militants responsible for bombings
Special to The TimesBEIRUT -- Lebanese security forces rounded up a group of Islamic militants believed to be responsible for a pair of bomb attacks targeting soldiers in the country's northern city of Tripoli, authorities disclosed Monday. Security officials were tight-...Tags: Armed Forces, Refugee, Islam, Defense, Police
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Steve Israel in Afghanistan meeting with Karzai
juliann.vachon@newsday.comWASHINGTON - Rep. Steve Israel (D- Huntington) traveled to Afghanistan this weekend, where he met yesterday with President Hamid Karzai, Gen. David McKiernan and New York troops in what he called "sobering" insight into the Taliban's resurgence and...Tags: Armed Forces, International Military Interventions, Defense, Huntington, Steve Israel
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'Poster disarmament': Lebanon, seeking peace, takes down posters that fueled tensions
Associated Press WriterBEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) _ In polarized Lebanon, flaunting a political leader's poster can be enough to spark a gunfight. So shopkeepers on Beirut's al-Maamoun Street are breathing a little easier now that "poster disarmament" has been declared. Most of...Tags: Islam, Ruhollah Khomeini, Imperial and Royal Matters, Parliament, Armed Conflicts
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Car bombs, sniper attacks kill, wound many in Iraq
Associated PressSuicide car bombers struck twice yesterday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed by snipers...Tags: Armed Forces, Defense, Police, Vehicles, Armed Conflicts
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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: ABROAD
Flaunting a political poster can be enough to spark a gunfight in polarized Lebanon. So Beirut shopkeepers are breathing a little easier now that "poster disarmament" has been declared. Most of the posters once plastered on walls and lampposts have come...Tags: Texas, Austin, Armed Conflicts, Petroleum Industry, Government
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Democrats, Republicans Pitch To Jewish Voters
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman ended his week pitching John McCain to Jewish voters in Pennsylvania, where Jews had been cool to Barack Obama in the presidential primary. Before breaking for Yom Kippur, Lieberman also had worked both coasts of Florida, touting...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Judaism, Ronald Reagan, Louis Farrakhan, Quinnipiac University
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Mercurial Austrian rightist associated with pro-Hitler statements killed in car crash
Associated Press WriterVIENNA, Austria (AP) _ Joerg Haider, who catapulted his rightist anti-immigration party into a powerful force with sharp attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58. His death on a little...Tags: Vehicles, European Union, Road Accidents, Government, Adolf Hitler
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Bernstein's eclectic, audacious approach
Baltimore Sun reporterWhen Leonard Bernstein undertook to create a work for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, it was inevitable that he would think big. Very big. The result was Mass, subtitled A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers....Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Morgan State University, Paul Simon, Theater, Classical Music
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Joerg Haider, controversial Austrian politician, dies
VIENNA - Joerg Haider, who catapulted his party into a powerful force in Austrian politics with a mix of folksy aphorisms, in-your-face attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era, died yesterday in a car accident. He was 58. His death on...Tags: Government, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, National Government, George Bush
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Joerg Haider, anti-immigration Austrian
The Associated PressJoerg Haider, who catapulted his anti-immigration party into a powerful force with sharp attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58. His death on a little-traveled stretch of a southern highway...Tags: Government, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, National Government, European Union
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Car Crash Kills Austrian Rightist Joerg Haider
Associated PressAustrians reacted with shock Saturday to the death of Joerg Haider, a provincial governor who catapulted his rightist anti-immigration party into a powerful force with attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era. Haider, who died early...Tags: Government, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, National Government, Executive Branch
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